BEAUMONT, Texas — The City of Beaumont will host its annual Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 14, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. in downtown Beaumont. This free, public event unites the community to ...

During the 1970s, author and photographer Sarah Bird documented small-town Black rodeos in Texas. She turned that material in book and museum exhibit ...

The celebrations for Juneteenth began in 1866 – some people held parties, parades, prayer gatherings or cookouts. In 1980, Juneteenth first became a state holiday in Texas, and over time ...

In essence, Juneteenth is a second Independence Day. After 2½ bloody years of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed ...

Lubbock will mark the upcoming Juneteenth holiday with a day-long celebration Saturday. Check out the full lineup of events.

The first Juneteenth celebration took place in Texas in 1866, with community gatherings featuring cookouts, prayers, and dances. In time, however, white people in certain areas began restricting ...

The project team behind the National Juneteenth Museum have shared new renderings of the future building in Fort Worth, Texas ...

Juneteenth Denver is a vibrant, annual celebration that brings the community together in the heart of Denver’s Historic Five Points neighborhood. The event commemorates the moment when the last ...

Months after a showing at Black Spectrum’s History Park, an outdoor theater space in St. Albans, “Why We Celebrate Juneteenth ...

And the Juneteenth celebration wasn’t finished on Saturday ... But because federal troops never occupied Texas, all those enslaved in the Lone Star State were not freed and did not even know ...

Juneteenth celebrations in Reading began Friday ... The holiday marks June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Texas learned about their freedom. "We initially started off with just a weekend celebration.

Las Vegas Valley residents began Juneteenth celebrations Saturday with festivals ... when a Union general told enslaved African Americans in Texas that the war had ended and the Emancipation ...